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More detail regarding dropping of ACK Ranges #3581

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17 changes: 14 additions & 3 deletions draft-ietf-quic-transport.md
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Expand Up @@ -3304,9 +3304,20 @@ necessary if an ACK frame would be too large to fit in a packet, however
receivers MAY also limit ACK frame size further to preserve space for other
frames.

When discarding unacknowledged ACK Ranges, a receiver MUST retain the largest
received packet number. A receiver SHOULD retain ACK Ranges containing newly
received packets or higher-numbered packets.
A receiver MUST retain an ACK Range unless it can ensure that it will not
subsequently accept packets with numbers in that range. Maintaining a minimum
packet number that increases as ranges are discarded is one way to achieve this
with minimal state.

Receivers can discard all ACK Ranges, but they MUST retain the largest packet
number that has been successfully processed as that is used to recover packet
numbers from subsequent packets; see {{packet-encoding}}.

A receiver SHOULD include an ACK Range containing the largest received packet
number in every ACK frame. The Largest Acknowledged field is used in ECN
validation at a sender and including a lower value than what was included in a
previous ACK frame could cause ECN to be unnecessarily disabled; see
{{ecn-validation}}.

A receiver that sends only non-ack-eliciting packets, such as ACK frames, might
not receive an acknowledgement for a long period of time. This could cause the
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